Soldiers have fanned out to guard possible terror targets across Belgium, including some buildings in the Jewish quarter of the port city of Antwerp.

Thirteen people have been detained in Belgium and two in France in an anti-terror sweep following a gunfight in which two suspected terrorists were killed.

Paris police evacuated the Gare de l’Est train station today after a bomb threat, as authorities across Europe pressed on with efforts to prevent new violence after the worst terrorist attacks in decades.

Belgian authorities have said they thwarted a major attack by just hours when they killed two suspects in a shoot-out and arrested a third in a huge anti-terror operation that stretched into the night.

Alert status raised to second highest level amid fears ‘operational cell’ about to mount major attack

Belgian security forces killed two terror suspects in a fierce shoot-out in the eastern city of Verviers foiling a major attack against police buildings.